Maine lawmakers have approved a slate of law changes aimed at expanding voter rights in the state.

According to the Portland Press Herald, bills to establish online voter registration and allow college students to register to vote with a student ID passed without much support from Republicans.

But others, like legislation to ban direct contributions to campaigns from businesses or labor unions, as well as a bill still in the works that would create semi-open primaries in Maine, received bipartisan support.

A provision in one of the bills also bars clerks or poll workers from counting or tabulating absentee ballots before the polls close, even if the ballots were fed into a scanning machine.

Another bill, proposed by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, keeps in place absentee ballot drop boxes, which were used during the pandemic to encourage absentee voting.